8 Quick Tips for Handling Overly Social Employees

Laura Ludka

CareerBuilder surveyed more than 2,000 hiring and human resource managers from a variety of industries and company sizes to identify the worst productivity offenders. Here are the results, according to the employers who were surveyed:

Cell phones and texting (50%)

Gossip (42%)

The Internet (39%)

Social media (38%)

Smoke breaks/snack breaks (27%)

Noisy coworkers (24%)

Meetings (23%)

Email (23%)

Coworkers dropping by (23%)

Coworkers putting calls on speaker phone (10%)

Not surprisingly, seven of the top 10 productivity killers are related to too much socializing.

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